A Many African people suffered injustices in the 1930's. I can tell this from an inter view of Jim Cole. He said, "I'm working in the Beef Kill section. Butcher on the chain. Been in the place twenty years, I believe. You got to have a certain amount of skill to do the job I'm doing. Long ago, I wanted to join the AFL union, the Amalgamated Butchers and Meat Cutters, they called it, and wouldn't take me. Wouldn't let me in the Union. Never said it to my face, but reason of it was plain. Negro. That's it. Just didn't want a Negro man to have what he should. That's wrong. You know that's wrong." (Quote) They wouldn't let him in the workers union just because he was African. Now, that's an injustice. What a shame. There were poor and rich people in the 1930's. When asked if they had anything in common an man in Colonial Park said, "God made all this, and he made it for everybody. And he made it equal. This breeze and these green leaves out here is for everybody. The same sun's shining down on everybody. This breeze comes from God and man cain't do nothing about it. I breath the same air old man Ford an old man Rockerfeller breath. They got all the money an I ain't got nothing, but they got to breath the same air I do." He has no resentment towards rich people. He sees them as the same. Times could get really tight for people. Mrs. Marie Haggerty even had to work as a maid. (Link) It seems that the only thing that everyone wants to do is make ends meet. They need money and it is hard to find.
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Mrs. Emma Falconer is being interviewed. She is white ad was born in 1850. The interview is in Marlin, Texas, there is no date for the interview. She is being interviewed by Miss Effie Cowan.
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Many African people suffered injustices in the 1930's. I can tell this from an inter view of Jim Cole. He said, "I'm working in the Beef Kill section. Butcher on the chain. Been in the place twenty years, I believe. You got to have a certain amount of skill to do the job I'm doing. Long ago, I wanted to join the AFL union, the Amalgamated Butchers and Meat Cutters, they called it, and wouldn't take me. Wouldn't let me in the Union. Never said it to my face, but reason of it was plain. Negro. That's it. Just didn't want a Negro man to have what he should. That's wrong. You know that's wrong." (Quote) They wouldn't let him in the workers union just because he was African. Now, that's an injustice. What a shame. There were poor and rich people in the 1930's. When asked if they had anything in common an man in Colonial Park said, "God made all this, and he made it for everybody. And he made it equal. This breeze and these green leaves out here is for everybody. The same sun's shining down on everybody. This breeze comes from God and man cain't do nothing about it. I breath the same air old man Ford an old man Rockerfeller breath. They got all the money an I ain't got nothing, but they got to breath the same air I do." He has no resentment towards rich people. He sees them as the same. Times could get really tight for people. Mrs. Marie Haggerty even had to work as a maid. (Link) It seems that the only thing that everyone wants to do is make ends meet. They need money and it is hard to find.
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Mrs. Emma Falconer is being interviewed. She is white ad was born in 1850. The interview is in Marlin, Texas, there is no date for the interview. She is being interviewed by Miss Effie Cowan.